Alright I want to go to University of Nevada, Las Vegas as a full-time student. I've heard from current students that it only takes 30 minutes of homework every night, and that they only go to school for 4 hours a day for like 4 days a week. I feel sketchy about that, what's the real daily life schedule of a full-time college student? I'm majoring in the medical field.
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Answer 1 :
Medical field? Okay, those current students are WRONG, then. The typical schedule of a full-time college student involves a lot of self-directed studying. The profs won't baby you like they did in high school. You have to be proactive enough to read ahead in class and go over your notes frequently to understand the material. Here are three aspects of college in order to have a good time: 1. Getting good grades/studying 2. Getting enough sleep 3. Having an active social life You can only pick 2 of the 3 items above because there are only 24 hours in a day. Since you want to do something in the medical field, choosing #1 is a must. So you'll either have no life or you will be exhausted all the time. Good luck!
Answer 2 :
It depends. In college, there is a lot of independence and self-guidance (as the other person who answered wrote). This means that you can take different numbers of classes at a time, take them in different orders, have different teachers, etc. All of these factors shape your schedule (how many days per week, how many hours/course credits you'll have, how much you'll have to study). From my experience, you will definitely have more than 30 minutes of hw per night. Even if you only go to school for 4 hours a day, 4 days per week (which might be 3 classes or so), if they're hard classes, you'll be studying way more than that. It's not just doing hw, it's prereading, taking notes, doing practice tests, studying for test, doing projects, writing essays, etc. I took Chem 1A at community college this semester with a really hard teacher. I only took two other college classes (although I had 4 high school classes as well) and all I studied for was Chem. I was studying about 4 hours a day and 30 hours per week. That's a lot. And I'm not even going into the medical field. This is all not to scare you, but if you plan to challenge yourself, you will be doing many hours of self-guided study in comparison to how much you go to class. This can be a good thing for some people, depending on how you work best. Good luck! I wish you the best.
Answer 3 :
it really depends on the school and program, and i am not familiar with nevada. at my university(i am in sciences) i have about 20 hours a week of lecture, labs and tutorials, and about 3-5 hours a day of homework. the amount of homework you do depends on your school, program, classes, and the mark you want to receive.
Answer 4 :
Those students are partially wrong. I spend 23 hours a week in lectures. I study like crazy when I have tests coming up or if I'm having problems in a certain class, but I don't spend all my time studying. You're going to be in the medical field, which will take more time than some other majors, but you can still have a social life. My life: 23 hours of lecture a week, probably 15 hours of studying in the week, sometimes more, sometimes less. But I still go out with friends, mostly on weekends though. But I go out to dinner after all my classes are done sometimes. If you don't slack you'll be fine. But 30 minutes a night of homework is completely false. And some students do only go to school that long. I was only going to go to school 3 days a week/12 units/4 hours of class time a day until I added a 4 unit tuesday/thursday class. I have a friend in the medical field who is taking a lot of science classes, but he doesn't spend every waking moment studying and he's doing just fine.
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